at The Fix: BJ Sanders of Lumberton, North Carolina, also felt the sting of judgment after her 19-year-old daughter, Shelly, overdosed in her college dorm room in 2005. BJ recalls visiting a grief group for parents and hearing, “Well, my child didn’t deserve to die—she didn’t do drugs.” The experience was so humiliating for BJ that for a long time she would not openly speak of her daughter’s death. more Read more
“What is art?,” asked Tarkovsky. “Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.” –I found it here Read more
It has been an especially precarious Lent and Holy Week in many parts of the Arab world. more Read more
reports: After praying the Rosary this evening, Pope Francis reflected on how Mary “gives us health” by helping Christians mature in their faith and not remain “teenagers for life.” “Dear brothers and sisters, how hard it is, in our time, to make the ultimate decisions! The temporary seduces us. We are victims of a trend that pushes us to the temporary … as if we wanted to stay teenagers for life! We should not be afraid of the agreed commitments,... Read more
In the continuing saga of my criticism of critical thinking…. An astute reader pointed out that some people give their hearts and trust too easily. That’s definitely true, and in fact I suspect one reason I’m so quick to wave the pom-poms for trust and the leap of faith is precisely that I’m a trust-and-leap kind of person. I realize that when I criticize the hypercautious, “every doubt is a reason to say no, every answer is just another more... Read more
Whoa. If you use any form of Mozilla/Firefox, put about:mozilla in the address bar and prepare to be a little bit freaked out. Read more
Christian H at The Thinking Grounds makes an attempt to figure out why on earth I’m against critical thinking and what I even mean by saying that. We’re pretty clearly talking past each other to some extent, but he does give me an excuse to extend, qualify, and generally shake the kaleidoscope of my AmCon post to see how it rearranges itself. Here are some scattered shards. I. Where I’m coming from: I wrote the post because I have talked... Read more
YES, this: It was only later, after seminary, that it occurred to me that our debate was, among other things, odd. We students interrogated each other, and each of us felt a (mostly self-imposed) obligation to settle “our position” on the matter. But in retrospect, I view that as strange—because whether women can be ordained to diaconal or priestly/pastoral ministry is not a question that can be “settled” by an individual Christian, even one who’s been to seminary and been... Read more
on Netflix Streaming, before it goes away! It’s not available on DVD! I super loved this movie–it was one of my honorable mentions from 2011–and so did Kindertrauma. They alerted me to several other… is “gems” really the word?… items which horror lovers might want to jump on before the May 1 deadline. WHY SETTLE FOR NETFLIX STREAMING WHEN YOU COULD HAVE… NETFLIX SCREAMING. Read more
In these circumstances the “marriage” between Waugh and the army headed for breakdown. He long retained an earnest if, as it sometimes appeared from the conduct of associates, idiosyncratic interest in the idea of combat, but other military qualities were lacking; one commanding officer rated him highest for “Zeal” and lowest for “Judgment.” Read more
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